Perspectiva practica, oder VollständigeAnleitung zu der Perspectiv-Reiss-Kunst

by Jean Dubreuil, Johann Christoph / Rembold, tr

$2,850 · Offered by Martayan Lan

First German-language edition and well-preserved copy of the Jesuit’s five-part book on the uses of “practical perspective.” First published in French in 1642 in response to Girard Desargues’ 1636 Manière universelle, in which Desargues advanced a new ‘double-scale’ method of calculating perspective, Dubreuil’s much longer work appeals to the “painters..... More

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